I once attended a philosophy lecture on the value of truth in modern times. It was framed around […]
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Long before Amazon, Twitter and Facebook, a company called Simulmatics Corporation sought to predict and control human behaviour […]
If you watch one film about technology this year, make it this one. The Social Dilemma (Netflix) features […]
In 1985, Neil Postman wrote a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it, he warned that unless […]
Brain implants are such a risky technology that we should consider banning them before they get released. If […]
The recent call for age restrictions on likes and streaks on Facebook and Snapchat is long overdue, but […]
When the threat of automation is raised, politicians tend to respond with banal platitudes about retraining workers. “We […]
There is a line in Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death that has been haunting me for months […]
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